Word: clouded
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...responding to John A. Cloud's editorial in the October 24 issue of The Crimson ("All Style and No Substance"), we wish to congratulate him for his well researched, well structured and polished editorial. While the media throughout most of the country refuse to engage in meaningful political discourse, his voice is a calmly intellectual one, as well as a refreshing one. We wish to address a few points, however, that the essay either neglected to mention or failed to understand...
First, the angle from which Cloud chooses to attack Sen. Bob Kerrey's presidential campaign is not an original one. In an article written for The New Republic in 1989 by Jacob Weisberg entitled "Senator Perfect," the ideas which Cloud points out are first stated, long before the Crimson piece...
...Cloud's lack of originality, as well as his failure to fully cite the original article's ideas, is a shame given the otherwise polished quality of his analysis...
...actual criticism of Kerrey himself, we shall make several arguments. First, Cloud failed to place the Senator's comments regarding the "evil empire" within its proper context. In the actual New York magazine article, it is clear that the senator made these remarks having just returned from a trip to the Soviet Union...
Some 120 miles away in the city of Lafayette, several thousand Cajuns are indulging the same habit at the Festival de Musique Acadienne. Clad in T shirts, blue jeans and calico dresses, a throng of two-stepping dancers is raising a fine cloud of dust under moss-bearded branches. On the stage, silhouetted against a red sunset, Johnny Sonnier's Cajun Heritage lays down a pulsating chank-chank rhythm punctuated by accordion counterpoints, soaring fiddles and a piercing nasal vocal: "Jolie fille, jolie fille...